Published: Monday, September 23, 2013 at 6:30 a.m.

Last Modified: Friday, September 20, 2013 at 6:11 p.m.

DARK MUSICAL:

The multiple Tony Award-winning musical “Assassins” opens Thursday at Insomniac Theatre in downtown Ocala. With music by Stephen Sondheim and script by John Weidman, the play toys with history and explores the nature of violence by putting presidential assassins — successful and unsuccessful — onto one stage to interact.

The Tampa-based Bay Baroque Ensemble will appear in Ocala, performing music by composers from the late 17th to mid 18th centuries, including Tomaso Albinoni, George Philipp Telemann, Georg Friedrich Händel and Christoph Graupner.

The College of Central Florida will host Kevin and Cindy Spencer in “Spencers: Theatre of Illusion” Sunday in Lecanto and Monday, Sept. 30, in Ocala. The award-winning illusionists will perform a theatrical, Broadway-style production.